A Man of the Times
Perhaps no single artist in the 19th century moved so freely in the European musical, literary and artistic worlds as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His music is the embodiment of the transition from the Classical to the Romantic and his concert overtures are poignant examples of the youthful prodigy’s poetic genius.
Mendelssohn's first sketch for the 'Hebrides' notated in a family letter from 1829
(Music Division, The New York Public Library of Performing Arts, The Arthur Lenox Tilden Foundation)
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